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Guests Neil Brand and Plinio Fernandes take us to Paris and Brazil

Another five tracks are added to the playlist, picking up where we left off. Guests - composer Neil Brand and guitarist Plinio Fernandes - demonstrate the intricacies of music.

Picking up from Let Him Go, Let Him Tarry, the final song last week, Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye add the next five tracks to the playlist.

Composer and pianist Neil Brand, this week's studio guest, alongside Brazilian guitarist Plinio Fernandes, explores the musical detail of the tracks, as connections are explored which link one composition to another. Last week we went from a country/rap smash hit to a traditional Irish folk song via a riotous rodeo, but where will this week's journey of discovery take us?

Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye
Producer Jerome Weatherald

Full track list in order in the episode, with the five chosen Playlist tracks in CAPITALS):

Hou Mamma Mia by Les NΓ©gresses Vertes
Let Him Go, Let Him Tarry by Ottilie Patterson
THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA by JoΓ£o & Astrud Gilberto
THE GIRL WITH THE FLAXEN HAIR by Claude Debussy
I'm a Man (Mannish Boy) by Muddy Waters
Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair by Meshell Ndegeocello
Bonnie and Clyde by Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot
SOUS LES PONTS DE PARIS sung by Melody Gardot and Juliette GrΓ©co
IT'S OH SO QUIET sung by Björk
It's Oh So Quiet by Betty Hutton
Und Jetzt ist es Still by Horst Winter
TAKE FIVE by Dave Brubeck
Take Five by Rico

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42 minutes

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  • Fri 15 Oct 2021 19:15

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